Quotes by Charles Hodge
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) — Theologe · Reformiert · USA
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) war ein US-amerikanischer presbyterianischer Theologe, der fast sechs Jahrzehnte am Princeton Theological Seminary lehrte und die konservative Princeton-Theologie maßgeblich prägte. Er wurde durch sein Hauptwerk „Systematic Theology“ und die Verteidigung der biblischen Irrtumslosigkeit bekannt, geriet jedoch wegen seiner vermittelnden Haltung zur Sklaverei und seiner Ablehnung des radikalen Abolitionismus in anhaltende Kritik. Für heutige Bibelleser dient sein Werk als klassisches Nachschlagewerk einer streng bekenntnisgebundenen, reformierten Dogmatik.
Era: Revival & the 19th Century
Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, Humility & Pride, Growth & Character, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust, Wisdom & Understanding, Guilt & Forgiveness
Quotes by Charles Hodge
The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him, and exalt him without inflating him.
Charles Hodge
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.
Charles Hodge
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
Charles Hodge
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
Charles Hodge
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what He hates, and to delight in what delights Him.
Charles Hodge
The ultimate foundation of faith and knowledge is trust in God.
Charles Hodge
When really weak in ourselves, and conscious of that weakness, we are in the state suited to the manifestation of the power of God. When emptied of ourselves, we are filled with God. Those who think they can change their own hearts, atone for their own sins, subdue the power of evil in their own souls or in the souls of others, who feel able to sustain themselves under affliction, God leaves to their own resources. But when they feel and acknowledge their weakness, he communicates to them divine strength.
Charles Hodge
The Scriptures teach that the happiness or blessedness of believers in a future life will be greater or less in proportion to the service of Christ in this life. Those who love little, do little; and those who do little, enjoy less.
Charles Hodge
The proximate result of obedience to God is inward conformity to the Divine image
Charles Hodge
What then were the apostles? It is plain from the divine record that they were men immediately commissioned by Christ to make a full and authoritative revelation of His religion; to organize the church; to furnish it with officers and laws, and to start it on its career of conquest through the world… The apostles, the twelve, stand out just as conspicuous as an isolated body in the history of the church, without predecessors, and without successors, as Christ Himself does. They disappear from history. The title, the thing itself, the gifts, the functions, all ceased when John, the last of the twelve, ascended to heaven.
Charles Hodge
Repentance is not merely a change of purpose, but includes a change of heart that leads to turning away from sin with grief and hatred of it, to cleave unto God.
Charles Hodge
A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which He lives.
Charles Hodge
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth, of holiness, and of life in all its forms, is present with every human mind, enforcing truth, restraining from evil, exciting to good, and imparting wisdom or strength, when, where, and in what measure seems to Him good… This is what in theology is called common grace.
Charles Hodge
The sure test of the quality of any supposed change of heart will be found in its permanent effects. Whatever, therefore, may have been our inward experience, whatever joy or sorrow we may have felt, unless we bring forth fruits meet for repentance, our experience will profit us nothing. Repentance is incomplete unless it leads to confession and restitution in cases of injury; unless it causes us to forsake not merely outward sins, which others notice, but those which lie concealed in the heart; unless it makes us choose the service of God and live not for ourselves but for Him. There is no duty, which is either more obvious in itself, or more frequently asserted in the Word of God, than that of repentance.
Charles Hodge
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please. As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.
Charles Hodge
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